Kapil Sibal

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As Internet penetration deepens, largely religiously and
socially conservative India is struggling to cope with concerns about
controversial web content and its easy accessibility to a vast population, all
with little oversight. Local courts have become the launching point for some of
the anti-Web offensives.

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Amid a raging debate on Internet freedom and censorship in India, members of the government met last week with a clutch of website operators, including representatives of Yahoo, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. In a meeting scheduled to address a wider plan to leverage social media to empower the government, it's unclear whether the touchy subject of filtering content was addressed, and the government said the meeting's tone was conciliatory. In any case, there has as yet been no resolution of the question of who should be responsible for filtering content deemed offensive, or how such a determination should be made